Japan over China

This film shows aspects of life in Japan and scenes of Japanese rule over the Chinese in Manchukuo. Footage of Japan filmed from the air is presented, as is a Japanese airport. Activities on a typical day on a farm are shown. Scenes showing life in Tokyo are presented, including Emperor Hirohito's palace, a baseball game, a department store, an evening with a family, a school, a track meet, medical examinations and religious eduction. The Datsun automobile plant is shown, as are scenes depicting the silk industry. Scenes of the Kabuki theater, the Bunraku puppet theater, geisha girls, a movie studio, and the towns of Nikko and Nara are shown. In Manchukuo, the following scenes are shown: the port of Dairen; an interview with Yosuke Matsuoka, the economic head of Japan's Manchukuo interests; the South Manchurian Railway; steel works at Anshan; the world's largest open-pit coal mine at Fushun; a shale oil refinery; the soya bean industry; Kaoliang, the area's number two crop; Harbin, called the last stronghold of the White Russians; Hsinking, the new capital of Henry Pu-Yi; Jehol and the border with Inner Mongolia. A day is spent with a poor Chinese peasant family. Yenching University, an American-sponsored school with 1,000 Chinese students, is shown. The Mongolian temples of Jehol are shown. A day is spent in a Buddhist monastery. At Japanese military headquarters, conferences are held to promote good will between "Manchukuoans" and the Japanese. New schools and hospitals built by the Japanese are shown, as are the summer palace of the late Empress, the U.S. Marines at artillery practice and troops of a Chinese Nationalist Division.